Developmental Neurobiology
The following 16 faculty members are pursuing research related to this topic.
Dawson, Glyn - ProfessorLipid signalling pathways and progrd cell death in brain and tumors; inherited lysosomal storage diseases.
Dobyns, William B - ProfessorDevelopmental Neurogenetics, especially human brain development and the molecular genetics of brain malformations.
Du, Wei - Associate ProfessorCell cycle, tumor suppressor genes, and development.
Fehon, Richard - ProfessorRegulation of epithelial polarity and proliferation during development.
Green, William N - Associate ProfessorCell Biology of neurotransmitter receptors.
Grove, Elizabeth A - ProfessorCellular and molecular mechanisms that control patterning, cell fate choice, and differentiation in the mammalian forebrain.
Ho, Robert K - ProfessorPattern formation and early development in the simple vertebrate zebrafish.
Lahn, Bruce - ProfessorEpigenetic Mechanisms of Cell Fate Restriction in Stem Cell Differentiation.
Lowe, Christopher J - Assistant ProfessorEvolution and development of deuterostomes.
Millen, Kathleen - Associate ProfessorGenetic analysis vertebrate CNS development and the genetic basis of mental retardation and autism
Popko, Brian - ProfessorMouse models in the study of neurological disorders.
Prince, Victoria - ProfessorMolecular, cellular, and comparative study of embryonic patterning along the anterior-posterior axis using zebrafish and other teleosts.
Ragsdale, Clifton - Associate ProfessorMolecular and cellular mechanisms of brain development
Rebay, Ilaria - Associate ProfessorTranscriptional regulatory circuitries in development and disease; Receptor tyrosine kinase signal transduction.
Ruvinsky, llya - Assistant ProfessorEvolution of development, particularly the evolution of transcriptional regulation (using C. elegans as a primary model organism); Comparative and computational genomics; Molecular evolution
Rzhetsky, Andrey - ProfessorAnalysis of complex molecular networks for understanding common phenotypes